Lena Dunham’s 1960-Set Feminism Pilot ‘Max’ Picked Up By HBO

Lena Dunham's 1960-Set Feminism Pilot 'Max' Picked Up By HBO

With “Girls” potentially ending after next season, Lena Dunham has set up a continuing relationship with HBO via new pilot “Max” — a single camera comedy set inside the world of second wave feminism during the 1960s (Dunham won’t star in it but will direct and execute produce). Deadline reports HBO has picked up the pilot:

Starring Lisa Joyce(Billy & Billie),Maxhails from a quartet ofGirlsexecutive producers who all will executive produce the pilot – Dunham, who also will direct,Murray Miller, who wrote the script, Jenni Konner and Ilene Landress. Dunham and Konner exec produce through their A Casual Romance Prods.

Set in the Mad Men era, Max is described as a raucous comedy set in 1963 about the struggles of second wave feminism, centered on an ambitious magazine writer, Maxine Woodruff (Joyce), looking for liberation. Maxine is an enthusiastic, if misguided, low-level magazine employee who stumbles into the forefront of a civil rights movement both she and the world may not be ready for.